Hi, Context: - I have 2 small old laptops: a "Dell Inspiron Mini" (amd64) and a "Compaq Mini" (i386). - To connect these little boxes to the Internet, I use an external USB device (from brand "ALFA" with a RaLink RT2870 chipset (*)) - The internet box is an old WEP wifi Access Point.
Problem: I've recently upgraded both boxes from 6.8 to 6.9, using an external USB media (built on another -linux- box with "dd" & "install69xxx.img"). Now, under OpenBSD 6.9, as soon as I attempt to set the WEP key of my AP, I get a "kernel panic" "null node". I can repeat this every time, both on amd64 and i386 kernels, from within the bsd.rd (see pictures 20210514_0948xxx) and from the upgraded base system (see pictures 20210514_11xxx). It happens sometimes when running "ifconfig run0 nwid <thenetid> nwkey 0x<thehexkey>", and sometimes when running "dhclient run0". But always ends up crashing as soon as the command is entered. The error message states that the problem comes from: "run_set_key_cb+0x6c", hence the title of the email. Pictures can be downloaded here (~25MB): https://sexxxenator-drive.mycozy.cloud/public?sharecode=YroH8cNHJPWe NOTE1: After I *in*completely ran "pkg_add -u" on the "Dell Inspiron Mini" with another USB wifi dongle, I re-plugged the ALFA RT2870. I then got another "kernel panic": "page fault trap code=0" at "run_set_key_cb+0x54d", see pictures 20210514_13xxx). I'm still not sure why the message & position are now different, but it still seems to be in related to "set_key". NOTE2: After successfully executing sysmerge + syspatch + fw_update with this same other USB wifi dongle, I now get the Kernel panic (nul node) at "run_set_key_cb+0x76". Following https://www.openbsd.org/ddb.html, I'm currently trying to get more information about the exact source of the bug. But since it's my first time doing this, plus on a very slow machine with very slow internet, I thought it would be better to warn you ASAP, as someone here might find the problem & solution faster than I will. Regards, Guillaume
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